jeff@unbuggy.com • +1 (617) 407-2542
Hands-on engineering leader with 25+ years across FinTech, AI, and distributed systems. Builds and ships as an IC, leads and grows engineering teams.
DeFi perpetuals exchange. Rust (Axum, Tokio), Postgres, Redis, Kafka, ZeroMQ, Kubernetes on AWS.
- Played a senior role in launching the company's first production Rust services, then continued building functionality and improving performance
- Sustained sub-millisecond latency and three-nines uptime through profiling, benchmarking, and architecture refinement
- Built and open-sourced a CCXT connector (and FreqTrade integration) for institutional access: github.com/fireflyprotocol/ccxt
- Raised code quality through thorough review and mentorship of engineers new to Rust
Seed-stage healthtech startup. Team of 5 engineers.
- Built backend services for real-time data aggregation and analysis (Python, async)
- Developed RPA-based integrations with external systems
NLP and knowledge-graph platform for biomedical research, serving academic researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and clinicians.
- Led an engineering team of ten across backend, frontend, and ML infrastructure
- Built infrastructure for versioning and deploying ML models independently of application code
- Coordinated cross-functional work with product, science, and leadership teams
- Engineering Productivity team within Core Systems
- Led development of automatic unit test generator for Angular components
- Collaborated regularly with engineers on three coasts
- Began as contractor, served briefly as Head of Engineering
- Formalized development processes and automated data integrations
- Acquired by Anthem's PBM, IngenioRx
- First engineer in NYC office of Big Data analytics startup
- Identified opportunities, built prototypes, and guided ongoing development
- Acquired by Snap
- Employee #1 at FinTech startup (acquired, now American Express)
- Hired as Senior Engineer, then managed Infrastructure team
- Designed and implemented cloud-based microservice architecture
- Worked on real-time bidding, API integrations, and custom tooling
- Hired as C++ developer after two-month contract; later managed a small team
- Helped create binding layer to expose native code to dynamic languages
- Guided development of Launchpad, a special-purpose window manager
Engineering positions at Sun Microsystems, IBM, GE, and various startups. C++, embedded systems, and microprocessor design automation (EDA).
B.S. in Computer Systems Engineering, Boston University
- Languages: Rust, C++, Python, Go, TypeScript
- Systems: Distributed systems, performance engineering, microservices
- Infrastructure: Kafka, Redis, Postgres, Kubernetes, AWS
- Domain: FinTech, AI/ML platforms, healthcare